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jackpot
Rock Band creators get $300 million rock-star bonus
Eran Egozy and Alex Rigopulos, the MIT-educated creators of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, have earned a $150 million bonus from Viacom, whose MTV unit bought the game. The pair are on track to earn an even bigger bonus in 2009. (Photo by Newsweek/John Huet)
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online advertising
Viacom turns MySpace bootlegs into an advertunity
A year ago, Viacom sued YouTube for one billion dollars, claiming YouTube was not blocking uploads of copyrighted Viacom material from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and others. Today, MySpace will join YouTube in running ads targeted to Viacom-owned clips, instead of deleting them. Auditude, a Palo Alto startup, provides the software that identifies Viacom-owned content. Remember when musicians believed all advertising was evil? Now, I'm looking forward to seeing a Big & Rich ad targeted against another Big & Rich ad, overlaid by another Big & Rich ad for a Big & Rich ad I haven't seen yet. Collect them all!
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By Paul BoutinComment by Uncle-Sam's Littlle Helper: Thanks! I tried to write you back on MySpace, but my network is running so slow because of all... more » | Other threads
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digital music
MTV Music too little, too late — except for one thing
Imagine a website where you can view every music video known to man. Yes, that's what MTV.com should have been 10 years ago. Now that MTVmusic.com exists, what is it good for? Oh yes: A whole new way to rickroll your friends.
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By Owen ThomasComment by irrational-exuberance: since when has MTV had anything to do with music? 1 Responses | Other threads
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acquisitions
With plans for Flux, MTV dreams of restored relevancy
Viacom subsidiary MTV Networks acquired the rest of software company Social Project, which runs Flux, a platform for social networks. Flux links together sites and gives them social features like messaging and video sharing. MTV already owned a large stake in the company and had 35 sites on the platform. MTV plans to turn Flux into an ad network because "the Web is fragmented,” says Mika Salmi, MTV's president of global digital media. “People are attracted to niches. We have a history in the cable business of going after niches.” True enough: Online, MTV has a history of turning what should be successful, mainstream ventures into mere niches. -
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DailyCandy sold to Comcast for $125 million
In selling DailyCandy to Comcast for $125 million, Bob Pittman has notched a 36x return on the email newsletter he bought in 2003 for $3.5 million. We had heard that Comcast was trying to get it for $75 million, marking sharp dealmanship by Pittman to get the higher price. The long-rumored deal has done much to restore Pittman's reputation as a businessman after the disastrous AOL-Time Warner merger. [Silicon Alley Insider}
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By Owen ThomasComment by Patricia2: @Shadowlayer, it's not fashion but everything, in multiple cities including kids. more » | Other threads
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viacom
Viacom Fraudulently Claims Ownership Of Indie Filmmakers' YouTube Clips
Viacom is sending bogus copyright ownership claims and illegal posting notices to independent filmmakers posting their own movies on YouTube. These films contain not one iota of Viacom content. Take, for instance, this lovely short animation, "Juxtaposer," made by Joanna Davidovich for her senior project. It's completely her original creation. She has copyrighted it and says that she "only entered into distribution agreements that were nonexclusive." Yet, the media corporation saw fit to have YouTube tell Joanna, "Viacom has claimed some or all audio and visual content in your video." [Consumerist]
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By Ben PopkenComment by Aisley: John from Brooklyn, If I didn't know better I would say that you're John from Viacom. When you say "... when an... more » | Other threads
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Chad and Steve
What Viacom really wants to know about YouTube videos
What is Viacom really after in its $1 billion lawsuit against Google over YouTube? Despite a lengthy invite list, Viacom PR was only to drum up "a small press gathering" to listen to CEO Philippe Dauman at a screening for Tropic Thunder last night, according to Greg Sandoval's report on News.com. Dauman called YouTube a "rogue company" — and expressed disappointment that Google did nothing to rein it in. Viacom's now being painted as a rogue itself, seeking to violate YouTube users' privacy in requesting viewing logs from the site. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ThaiKitchen: That might have true to that, since that's the only thing holding YouTube to their millions. According to this analysis of... more » | Other threads
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digital music
MTV launches another surely doomed music service
MTV is continuing its push into digital music, despite its long litany of failures in the past, by introducing a music recommendation service and social network called Soundtrack. Most of the song recommendations will be based off of MTV's list of shows such as The Hills, Shot at Love, and G's to Gents. RealNetworks' Rhapsody, which recently dropped copyright protections on its music files, will help MTV sell those songs, as well — though a tipster reports Rhapsody been having customer service and outage issues for weeks.
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copyfight
Mahalo Daily suspended from YouTube
A tipster pointed out that Mahalo Daily, the promotional show from manually manicured search-results provider Mahalo, is no longer available on YouTube. Not just a few clips have been taken down, but the whole account has been suspended. Why? A series of DMCA takedown notices from Google nemesis Viacom, naturally. I spoke to Mahalo Daily producer Tyler Crowley, who explained that he received a number of violation notices in quick succession, triggering YouTube's "three strikes, you're out" account suspension policy — even though Mahalo Daily is part of the YouTube partner program. What crime against intellectual property did Mahalo Daily commit? More »
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By Jackson WestComment by EudoraRullus: UPDATE: I found an article about french blogger Loic Le Meur who just got his YouTube account suspended http://www.atelier-us.com/media-entertainment/article/youtube-deletes-all-of-loic-le-meur...%E2%80%99s-vid... more » | Other threads
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great moments in pr
5 questions Viacom doesn't want Valleywag to ask Philippe Dauman
Touchy Viacom flack Jeremy Zweig called Valleywag up to let us know personally that we'd been disinvited from next week's press-only screening of Tropic Thunder. Such a pity! Because we had a list of questions we were going to ask Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Shadowlayer: @raincoaster: you're asking me? I thought they made crappy teen shows... more » | Other threads
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double standards
How Google could humiliate Viacom in YouTube lawsuit
Worried that your obsessive kitten-video viewing records on YouTube would be exposed in Viacom's copyright lawsuit against YouTube? You can relax. Google and Viacom lawyers have reached an agreement to anonymize records of usernames and IP addresses in YouTube's video-viewing logs, which Viacom wants to examine to show patterns of willful copyright infringement on the site. The accounts of employees of both companies, however, aren't included in the deal. And that suggests a negotiating tactic for Google. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by internetlawattorney: I am still amazed that the judge approved the original order requiring the personally identifiable information of google's users. Viacom... more » | Other threads
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great moments in pr
Viacom unleashes PR thunder on San Francisco's press corps
Viacom's legal spat with Google has the media conglomerate cast in copyright-hating, freedom-to-upload-videos-loving Silicon Valley as a mustachio-twirling villain, out to expose YouTube viewers' usernames and IP addresses. Bwahahaha! Benighted flack Jeremy Zweig has been reduced to leaving comments on blogs in response. At last, he's getting some corporate firepower: Zweig and Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman Sr. are inviting a bunch of tech journalists a screening next Monday of Tropic Thunder, the Ben Stiller action-movie parody coming to theaters next month, and YouTube probably sooner than that. We've seen the invite list, and it left us scratching our heads. More »
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copyfight
Viacom wants to know viewing habits of YouTube employees
As a part of its copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google and YouTube, Viacom lawyers have asked for data that will detail which videos YouTube employees have watched and uploaded. Google has so far refused to provide the information, delaying an already agreed-upon transfer of some 12 terabytes of data detailing what types of videos are most often viewed on the site. Here's why Viacom wants the employee information: More » -
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Viacom says it never wanted to know all the videos you watched (but it did)
Despite reports to the contrary, Viacom did not, as a part of its copyright suit against Google and YouTube, ask for "any personally identifiable information of any YouTube user" the company now wants us all to believe. It will get data from YouTube, but anything personally identifiying will be "stripped from the data." It's nice bit of PR revisionism. According to court documents, Viacom did "seek all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed." Only after the court sided with Viacom, but public opinion did not, did Viacom agree to accept scrubbed data. (Photo by AP)
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Comment by mrfomoco: Hey, lookee who stepped out from behind their favorite jurisprudent technicality and agreed to accept _masked_ YouTube user-data.: [news.cnet.com] if (ShineBrightLight() ==... more » | Other threads
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your privacy is an illusion
Google to tell Viacom how many times you watched LonelyGirl15
Two rulings came down in Viacom's copyright infringement suit against Google and its video-sharing site YouTube yesterday. The first: Despite Viacom's wishes, Google will not have to turn over YouTube's source code. It will however, turn over to Viacom "every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses," reports Threat Level. Viacom's lawyers say they need to the information to prove that copyright-infringing content is more popular on the site than legally uploaded videos. We're hoping Viacom will go on to publish the list, just like AOL did with users' search queries back in 2006. Remember how much fun that was?
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widgets
VH1 and Slide sign deal to create Facebook's killer app — Flavor Flav SuperPokes
On Wednesday, Facebook and MySpace users who have installed Slide's near-ubiquitous SuperPoke widget — the one that lets you throw sheep — will be able to send messages branded with characters and slogans from VH1's stable of reality series such as Flavor Flav from Flavor of Love. It's all an effort to promote the new series I Love Money — which, surprisingly, does not star hypercompetitive Slide founder Max Levchin. Who knew?
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acquisitions
Atom Films relaunched by Viacom as Atom.com
Atom Films, a pre-Web 2.0 aggregator of shorts from indie filmmakers that swallowed up Macromedia spinoff Shockwave was itself swallowed up in 2006 by old media heavy Viacom for $200 million. Now the site is finally relaunching two years after the acquisition with an emphasis on comedy and a handful of original series. The site has plenty of stiff competition for funny video clips delivered to bored office workers, but is still offering a fifty-fifty revenue split to creators. [Silicon Alley Insider] -
copyfight
Steven Spielberg taking money from digital film pirates?
Steven Spielberg and David Geffen are offering Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA a large stake in their production company Dreamworks in exchange for $600 million. What none of the press has mentioned? That Reliance was accused by Universal of selling pirated DVDs. Universal, though, is a rival of Dreamworks parent company Paramount, which in turn is a division of Viacom — who are busy suing Google for $1 billion in copyright infringement damages. Your move, MPAA. [Current] (Photo by AP/Kevork Djansezian)
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By Jackson WestComment by mewcomm: The Story is about Spielberg and *David Geffen.* Yet the photo is of Spielberg and *JefferyKatzenburg Tsk, tsk. And I thought Valley... more » | Other threads
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David Verklin
Meet the man who has to save cable
Ad money is flying onto the Web. While it hasn't hurt cable TV yet — that business is still seeing a migration of ad dollars from the broadcast networks — Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Cablevison, Charter and Brighthouse Networks are worried it could. So together, they've created Canoe Ventures, and hired ad-agency veteran David Verklin as CEO. His mission: Convince cable programmers like Walt Disney's ESPN or Viacom's MTV to adopt advertising technology that will automatically place cable commercials, like Internet ads are targeted today. More »
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Comment by G2GdoB2B: But I'm confused. What they are creating is something that goes against their revenues. Or are they being pressured by... more » | Other threads
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confirmed
Hulu lands Viacom's Colbert and Stewart
Now showing on NBC Universal and News Corp. Web video joint venture Hulu: the Daily Show's Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central. Viacom, which owns the Comedy Central network, has long hinted it might join Hulu — we heard rumors the deal was done in March — but until now had only announced agreements with Joost, the failing Internet video company founded by Skype founders Nikolas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. More »
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Comment by Tiki Tonga: So in boxing terms, is this a knockout punch to Joost, or merely a jab? Maybe a one-two punch?... more » | Other threads
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copyfight
Viacom "threatens" freedom of expression, says Google
Google's lawyers suggest that Viacom's strategy in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube is to subvert the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's protection of websites and Internet service providers and "threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression." The argument is set forth in a response to Viacom's amended complaint filed in April, which cited 150,000 examples of infringing content, which together had been viewed 1.5 billion times. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by twig: Google's response also demands a trial by jury, moving further away from any possibility for a settlement. I'm not sure this... more » | Other threads
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philippe dauman
Viacom CEO: Some platforms work, some are like Joost
Viacom helped Joost with its original funding. But the video platform's co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis probably shouldn't expect any more cash from Sumner Redstone's empire. Not after the way Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman took a dainty dump on the service yesterday:We come at Joost or other platforms from the point of view that we cannot predict—nor did we in that case or any other case—predict which ones are going to be hugely successful, moderately successful, which won't work.
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Google "going all the way to the Supreme Court" against Viacom
Do Google lawyers plan to settle with Viacom over its $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google and it's video-sharing site YouTube? "Nope," says grandiloquent dealmaker David Eun, VP of content partnerships at Google. "We're going all the way to the Supreme Court," Eun said. "We're very clear about it." With brass-balled talk like that, you'd think Eun hasn't seen Viacom's thinly-veiled threats of violence against YouTube. (Photo by James Gordon) -
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Viacom offers $10 million to buy music blog aggregator Hype Machine?
A tipster tells us Hype Machine founder Anthony Volodkin has a "$10 million Viacom offer floating around." Hype Machine, a website which aggregates music uploaded to blogs, has grown 125 percent in the last year, with 127,000 monthly visitors, according to Compete.com. Another source familiar with Volodkin's plans for Hype Machine can't confirm Viacom's offer, but said an acquisition would be the next logical step. Volodkin has been very careful to avoid taking venture capital, "despite VCs going hard after him," this second source tells us. Update: A third source says Hype Machine has been sold, but not for $10 million and not to Viacom. Whoever the buyer is, the sale rumor, if true, captures a frustrating state of affairs for technology's financiers. More » -
online video
South Park kills 10 YouTube memes for good
Viacom continues to pursue a $1 billion lawsuit against Google's YouTube for allowing video piracy. On Viacom's Comedy Central, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren't helping their corporate parent's legal case. In last night's episode, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny asked themselves "How Do We Make Money on the Internet?" and predictably, they find it difficult — just like YouTube. This leads to a South Park scene straight out of Viacom CEO Philippe Daumann's dreams as, one by one, the viral-video sensations that made YouTube so big are destroyed. Here's the scene in two clips, and all the popular videos it refers to: More » -
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Nickelodeon getting into the mom- and kid-games market
"What video is to TV, games are to the Web," says Steve Youngwood, executive vice president for digital media at Viacom's Nickelodeon channel. We're not sure about that, but "casual gaming" is definitely big business — Nickelodeon is spending $100 million on new gaming initiatives including 600 original games for its websites, branded with its various entertainment shows. The appeal is obvious: For a 9-year old girl, why watch Dora the Explorer when you can be Dora the Explorer? More »
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copyfight
No way does Viacom get $1 billion from Google now
When Viacom sued Google for $1 billion over copyright infringement on YouTube last year, it seemed unlikely Viacom lawyers would ever win that much. Now it will be that much harder. Judge Louis Stanton ruled that Viacom will not be awarded "punitive damages." If Viacom wins the case, any money it gets from Google will be a sum determined only by how much the alleged copyright infringement cost Viacom. Since Viacom executives argued during the writers' strike that they weren't making any money online, they may have a tough case getting anything.
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Comment by WagCurious: I never thought I'd actually feel sorry for "Country Music Television", but limiting the award to either $150,000 or the... more » | Other threads
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online video
Hulu videos open to all, with Time Warner and Viacom waiting in wings
Tomorrow, Hulu will finally open its doors to the wider public. Rumor has it Time Warner and Viacom soon plan to join the site, which is backed by NBC and News Corp., through nonexclusive distribution deals. CBS digital guru Quincy Smith, however, remains pessimistic: "If the Web is just another way to watch TV, I think I'm going to slit my wrists." Below, the best friend of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's daughter in the kind of short form clip Hulu hopes the public will take to. More »
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Comment by Randall: How bout this... the web works till something more grand gets invented. I'm curious to see how hulu lives in... more » | Other threads
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your privacy is an illusion
Hacker steals 5,000 MTV employees' private data
A hacker infiltrated MTV's computers and accessed data included 5,000 employees' names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and salaries. "We are taking every appropriate action to investigate this incident and to protect you and the company in future," read a companywide email obtained by the WSJ. One-word version: Punk'd!
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Comment by belltolls: @Nicholas Carlson: Gawker is that other site in this grand blogger nation which took the time to grab screenswhots so... more » | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
Viacom CEO's son promoted to dad's job, according to blog
Philippe Dauman Jr., the Google-working, startup-launching, party-throwing son of Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman Sr., apparently has taken his dad's job, according to Silicon Alley Insider. Exciting! Congratulations, Philippe! I bet this means the $1 billion YouTube lawsuit will be dropped soon.
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By Owen ThomasComment by matto: @Paul Boutin: she better not smell like grape jello. again. more » | Other threads
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geeks gone wild
The Philippe Dauman Jr. playlist
Philippe Dauman Jr., triumphant Googler, entrepreneur, and son of Viacom's CEO, you're our new hero. So we made a playlist for you. Forgive us: We didn't have a password to your music startup, Yuzu, so we used rival Pandora's algorithm to find music about coke, boys, girls, boys and girls, and other things we imagine you like. Please play it this weekend. We'll be thinking of you as we do. More »
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philippe dauman jr.
Viacom CEO's kid finds time for a second job
Philippe Dauman Jr., the son of the Viacom CEO, has already raised eyebrows by working at Google, on which his dad has leveled a $1 billion lawsuit. A busy young man: Dauman Jr. has also cofounded New York-based startup Yuzu Music — and not, as far we can tell, in his 20 percent time, either. Dauman told Silicon Alley Insider Yuzu will provide artists with digital distribution tools and help them build a fan base. Sort of like Peter Rojas's RCRD LBL or Jakob Lodwick's Normative. What Yuzu has that those competitors lack isn't clear, save for Dauman's MTV-connected bloodline.
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exclusive
CollegeHumor and MTV make like Jake and Amir
The deal isn't official yet, but CollegeHumor and MTV plan to launch a TV show together. In the finished pilot, the Tumblr-popular Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld host, rolling clips between skits like the one in the clip below. Sam Reich plays College Humor cofounder Ricky Van Veen. Word has it CollegeHumor insisted on getting online distribution rights and that MTV readily complied. More »
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Comment by HelloBrooklyn: Wouldn't MTV be better off just syndicating old episodes of The Office? At least then the characters and jokes will... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Did Vh1 Brass Kill Best Week Ever's 'Save Friday Night Lights' Campaign?
Less than two weeks ago, the staff of Bestweekever.tv put together a spirited and inventive internet campaign whose mission was to convince NBC not to cancel Friday Night Lights. By all accounts, it seemed to be working well; not only did it receive a healthy amount of press coverage, BWE.tv was able to convince over 10,000 people to sign an online petition to save the show. However, over the weekend, all mention of the campaign mysteriously disappeared from the site's homepage. So we decided to do some digging. More »
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By Mark GrahamComment by BluntObjects: I'm not much on soap operas,which is all this show is.I won't miss it. more » | Other threads
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online video
Viacom execs tempted by Hulu dance?
A NewTeeVee report suggests Viacom and its subsidiaries may be moving closer to licensing content to Hulu, NBC Universal and News Corp.'s Web video joint venture. "We've been talking to them since the beginning, and we like it a lot," MTV exec Van Toffler told NewTeeVee. He described Hulu as "sleek and simple." We hear MTV is as likely to syndicate content on Hulu as it is on Amazon Unbox or anywhere else. Another MTV exec, Courtney Holt, said, "We're really bullish on syndicating our content." $1 billion says they're not thinking of YouTube. (Photo by L.x. Fringes)
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digital music
Yahoo unloads music service on RealNetworks and MTV
The weekend saw the long-rumored sale of Yahoo's paid music service go through. Rhapsody America, a RealNetworks and MTV joint venture, purchased Yahoo Music Unlimited for an undisclosed fee, paidContent.org reports. Word has it Yahoo plans to supplant the service with a free, ad-supported service. To that end, it has purchased the maker of FoxyTunes, a plugin for the Firefox browser which searches for music online. More » -
copyfight
Google dumps lawyer in Viacom case
Google has hired new lawyers to defend itself against Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit, the WSJ reports. Out with Phil Beck of Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, in with a new team from Mayer Brown LLP. Google told us the move had to do with scheduling and Mayer Brown's New York legal expertise. You'd think almost a year in would be an odd time for such a change, but today's move is in keeping with the confusion to surrounding Google's defense team from the beginning. More » -
the chart
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
The demise of Conde Nast's scrapbook site for teenaged girls, Flip.com, was a reminder. How is that other big website launch of 2007 going? 23/6, a joint venture between Barry Diller's IAC and Kenny Lerer's Huffington Post, was two years in the making. The political humor launched in November to lackluster reviews; but maybe it's caught fire since, what with the elections and all. Who are we kidding? A quick search on Compete.com shows 23/6 is as stillborn as Time Inc's Office Pirates, Viacom's Virtual Lower East Side — and every other site that springs from the loins of New York's media titans. They really should have read The Innovator's Dilemma, that standard reference book for young-at-heart moguls, more carefully. -
videogames
Jerry Bruckheimer to bring more bang to MTV games
MTV Networks has signed an exclusive deal with blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer to develop original videogame titles for MTV Games. MTV's parent, Viacom, has aimed for success in the video game industry with a commitment to spend $500 million on game and interactive entertainment within the next two years, but past attempts to break into the gaming world have been unsuccessful thus far. Unlike the purchase of game developer Harmonix, the makers of "Rock Band," a good fit for MTV, a deal with Bruckheimer is full of all the wrong kinds of risk. More »
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online advertising
Viacom dumps Google's DoubleClick for Microsoft
Microsoft will pay Viacom $500 million over five years to serve ads and distribute content for the media conglomerate, according to reports. What does that mean? Besides Microsoft-sold ads on MTV.com, expect to see Nickelodeon clips on MSN, Laguna Hills downloads on your Xbox 360 console, and so on. Viacom's old advertising service was DoubleClick. We're guessing that relationship turned sour when Google — which faces a $1 billion copyright infringement suit from Viacom — announced its intent to purchase DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. (Photo by AP/Mark Lennihan)
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Comment by vulturesquadron: So, who paid who for what? First you say MS paid Viacom to advertise on Viacom's networks, and then... more » | Other threads
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